Some years ago I attended a hymn sing at a Baptist church not far from my home. At the event, the song leader, the founder of a Christian radio network with an AM station about a half-hour's drive from the host church, announced an FM translator station in the town where the church is located. Have you ever attended a function where a new media outlet in the area where you live was announced?

The announcement of the new radio station was met in the church sanctuary with applause and gratitude, and deservedly enough so. I, however, was of a mixed mind about the announcement. Though I could welcome the furtherance of solid teaching and preaching on relatively local airwaves, the station was set to be located on the same frequency as the community-sponsored FM from my state's capital I liked! I'd grown to loathe its leftist politics but it still was home to rock, jazz, classical, and folk (a n d gospel!) programming to which I regularly listened. Has the signal of a radio--or TV--station you liked been threatened to be overtaken by another?

Probably because I lived at the time in a second-floor apartment, I was able to continue listening...at home... to the community-sponsored station whose musical diversity I continue to enjoy. My car was a different matter; during a drive in my small town, the old lefty signal and the new sanctified station will often trade off, as if by some random tag team arrangement. Yet, I can enjoy that randomness. Would, or do, you like to listen to a radio signal where you're never sure what you will hear from one moment to the next?

As implied in the title above, there is a third station that sometimes comes in on the same frequency as the two I've already mentioned. It originates from a state university about a 102-minute drive from from my home (which I've never made). I hear it less frequently in my car than the other two, but I'm glad that there are still state university radio stations in my state that haven't yet been subsumed by state's public radio network. Have you ever and/or do you still listen to any state and/or private college/university radio stations?

I believe I've asked the question already in at least one other poll of my mine, but, what with all the other streaming options and whatnot available to hear online and specialize with nothing but music and/or whatever else you already know you enjoy, do you, as should be obvious I do, listen to terrestrial radio?